An online notebook
An online notebook
I recently came across The Workplace – a question and answer site for people who go to work. It’s built on the Stack Exchange platform – which has considerable success in building knowledge communities, particularly around techy topics. I personally…
Increasingly, following a bit of a chat, it turns out you don’t. I’ve been delivering training on digital tools, including social media, for a fair few years now. I’d like to think I’m quite good at it, and that those…
There was a nice guest post from Doug Belshaw from Mozilla on Brian Kelly’s blog last week. Entitled What Does Working Openly on the Web Mean in Practice?, it told us a bit about Mozilla’s culture of openness and how…
Glassboard is a neat cross platform (iOS, Android, Web) app that helps people to communicate within teams while on the move. You download the app – or use the web version – and create a ‘board’ which is where you…
In this first effort at podcasting, I talk about podcasting. Oh, and audiobooks, and an actual paper book, too. With thanks to Lloyd Davis for the inspiration. Listen using the player below: Or you can: Download the mp3 Subscribe to…
Google has snuck out some rather cool new functionality to its cloud based productivity suite Google Drive. Called add-ons, you can now use them to add extra functionality to your Google Docs and Spreadsheets experience. Here’s a video explaining it…
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. About change, defaults and disruption – “large organisations are racing against start-ups to stay relevant”. Great stuff from Anne McCrossan Creating a minimum viable product using…
Not sure how I had never come across this before, but Tame is super useful! You set up an account as with all these services, and then connect to your Twitter account. Tame then goes away and comes back with…
The Myth of Innovation by Scott Berkun is a great read on the topic of technology and innovation. It’s little Ruth’s favourite bedtime read! From the blurb: This updated paperback edition of the classic bestseller, takes you on a hilarious,…
‘CRM’ or customer relationship management is one of those IT phrases that can put the fear of God into people, and with good reason. There aren’t many people who have managed to avoid the organisational carnage that attempts to deploy…